Doctoral Program:Management Information Systems Concentration

The doctoral program in MIS aims to train students to become high-quality academic
researchers in their respective areas. MIS seminars cover a broad range of research
streams related to individual, group, and organizational consequences of information
systems. Some of the current research interests of the MIS faculty include information
systems alignment, information systems leadership, virtual teams/computer-mediated
communication, social networking, and online learning. MIS seminars are supplemented
with seminars in related disciplines as well as multiple research methods seminars.
A typical course sequence appears below.

During the first two years of course work, it is expected from students to have the
ability to a) critique theoretical and methodological approaches taken by the respective
authors of the assigned readings, and b) formulate their own researchable propositions
on a self-selected or faculty-guided topic of interest. At the end of the course work,
students should be able to compare and contrast the major research streams in MIS
literature and have a strong comprehension of the research methods available for MIS
research. It is also expected from students to have a high-quality research in progress
with multiple conference and/or journal submissions before their comprehensive exams.